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Today's episode of Dr. Phil (check your local listings) will deal with game addiction. GamePolitics notes that guests on the show will include Liz Woolley, founder of Online Gamers Anonymous, whose son killed himself playing Everquest; Wendy Kaye, wife of SOCOM's lead designer; and several others.

Some of the people covered in today's show include a husband who ignores his whole family and a guy who is $24,000 in debt due to his addiction. Check out some clips of the show at the Dr. Phil website.

[Via GamePolitics]

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You can say a lot about Dr. Phil, mock him, distrust him, even make a short film about a planet populated only by him and his progeny, but the one thing you can't say is that he isn't hip to MMOs. Because he totally is. He recently used his acumen with the genre to help 13-year-old Lexie break her addiction to There. (Hey, is it an MMO if you're the only one still playing it?)

Watch here as the doctor explains online microtransactions in the game. "You pay this money with a credit card, and then you get credit, and then you can use that to buy things to furnish your house," Dr. Phil observes. "The stuff that you're buying, you don't really have anything. You just have a picture or something on your computer." Do you see? Do you see how he cuts to the quick of it? Read all of his sage advice right here.

JoystiqDr. Phil tries to help teen with MMO addiction originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We're totally enjoying CBS' coverage of Manhunt 2. After Katie Couric's eye-roll inducing Notebook entry two days ago, the odiously designed CBS.com site bubbles up a clip of Dr. Phil with Early Show host Harry Smith and journalist Scott Steinberg. We're sorry, but just try not to laugh as Smith introduces Dr. Phil to the show and Steinberg starts flailing the Wiimote trying to execute the guy on screen. Of course, you'll have to go to CBS.com to watch it. We're sorry, but the networks haven't discovered the basics of embeddable code.

Dr. Phil is far more careful here then the last time he talked about video game violence's effect on children during the Virginia Tech massacre -- probably because his hypothesis was dead wrong last time and he looked like a total (insult of choice goes here). Dr. Phil says about Manhunt 2, "Now the truth is, if somebody plays this game and then they go and do this in their life, there was something seriously wrong with them before they got the game. But it's modeling." We'd prefer if the mainstream media did a simple PSA and told parents not to let their children play M-rated games instead of all this fear mongering.

[Via GamePolitics]

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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>abccbsdrphilharrysmithmainstreammanhunt2PS2scottsteinbergsmithsteinbergWiiThu, 01 Nov 2007 16:20:00 EST<![CDATA[No video games found in VT shooter's dorm]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/19/no-video-games-found-in-vt-shooters-dorm/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/19/no-video-games-found-in-vt-shooters-dorm/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/19/no-video-games-found-in-vt-shooters-dorm/#commentsFiled under:

Video games were one of the first things blamed for the recent shootings at Virginia Tech. Dr. Phil and a certain Floridiot lawyer were two of the loudest voices, while an article in the online version of the Washing Post briefly mentioned Cho was a Counter-Strike player in high school. Not a big deal in our eyes, but to the general public if Cho even looked at a video game, it's case-closed.

After police searched Cho's dorm room, however, it seems he didn't own any video games at all. No murder simulators or gun training programs, not even a copy of Tetris. If video games didn't teach him these skills, where did they come from?! Oh noes!

We've posted our feelings about violent video games. Hopefully this lack of evidence will silence the anti-gaming pundits for a while.

JoystiqNo video games found in VT shooter's dorm originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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